::: center home >> news >> 2014-15 monthly bulletins

2014-15 monthly bulletins

September 4, 2014

We welcome our new visitors:  Joshua Alexander, William Bechtel, Leonardo Bich, Ingo Brigandt, Karim Bschir, Armando Cintora, Sara Green, Nicholaos Jones, Raphael Scholl, and Maria Serban.  In the spring term, Christian Dambock, Zoe Drayson, Wayne Myrvold, and Hamid Seyedsayamdost will join us. 

Speakers this month are Nicholas Rescher, Clark Glymour, Ingo Brigandt, Colin Allen, Nicholaos Jones, Sara Green, and Andreas de Block. 

Please join us for:

Early Career Scholars Conference in Philosophy of Psychiatry:
Overcoming Mind-Brain Dualism in 21st Century Medicine
21-22 November 2014

October 1, 2014

Speakers this month are Maria Serban, Joshua Alexander, Armando Cintora, John McCaskey, Leonardo Bich, Alison Simmons, William Bechtel, and Karim Bschir. 

Please join us for:

Early Career Scholars Conference in Philosophy of Psychiatry:
Overcoming Mind-Brain Dualism in 21st Century Medicine
21-22 November 2014

October 22, 2014 Fellowship Program Announcement

The Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for Fellowships supporting visits in the Center for a term or an academic year.  For details, see:

Postdoctoral Fellowship
Visiting Fellowship

The Center is pleased to announce that Nancy Nersessian will be the Senior Visiting Fellow for the academic year September 2015 - April 2016.  We encourage applications for Postdoctoral and Visiting Fellowships from scholars whose research intersects with Professor Nersessian's.

We also invite applications for the academic year September 2016 - April 2017 for the position of Senior Visiting Fellow.  For details, see:

Senior Visiting Fellowship

November 1, 2014

Speakers this month are Raphael Scholl, David Snoke, Sherri Roush, and Leah Henderson. 

Please join us for:

Early Career Scholars Conference in Philosophy of Psychiatry:
Overcoming Mind-Brain Dualism in 21st Century Medicine
21-22 November 2014

Call for papers:
Diagrams as Vehicles for Scientific Reasoning
10-12 April 2015

Apply for a Center Fellowship.

December 1, 2014

Speakers this month are Cailin O’Connor and Matteo Colombo. 

Please join us for:

Multiscale Modeling and Emergence
7-8 February 2015

Call for papers:
Diagrams as Vehicles for Scientific Reasoning
10-12 April 2015

Apply for a Center Fellowship.

December 8, 2014

The application deadline of December 15 is approaching for postdoctoral and visiting fellowships at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, for the academic year 2015-2016, and for a senior fellowship in 2016-2017.

For more details, see joining on the Center Web site

January 6, 2015

Speakers this month are Nicholas Rescher, Wayne Myrvold, Jan Sprenger, Richard Scheines, Christian Damböck and Zoe Drayson. See the calendar for details.

Please join us for:

Multiscale Modeling and Emergence
7-8 February 2015

Philosophy Meets Cultural Diversity
13-14 March 2015

Workshop in Honor of James Bogen
28 March 2015

Diagrams as Vehicles for Scientific Reasoning
10-12 April 2015

February 2, 2015

February speakers will be:
Hamid Seyedsayamdost, Allan Walstad, Robert Richardson, Andreas Hüttemann, James Lennox, Raphael Scholl, and Charlotte Werndl. See the Calendar for details.

Please join us for:

Multiscale Modeling and Emergence
7-8 February 2015

Philosophy Meets Cultural Diversity
13-14 March 2015

Workshop in Honor of James Bogen
28 March 2015

Diagrams as Vehicles for Scientific Reasoning
10-12 April 2015

In the neighborhood:

Climate Science Workshop
Uncertainty in Climate Modeling
27-28 February 2015

17th Annual Pitt-CMU Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
20-21 March 2015

HPS Alumni Talk by Alan C. Love, Class of 2005
26 March 2015

Climate Science Workshop
Sustainable Attention: Communicating Risk to the Public
4 April 2015

March 2, 2015

March speakers will be:
Robert McCauley, Maralee Harrell, Marshall Abrams, and Allan Franklin.

Please join us for:

Philosophy Meets Cultural Diversity
13-14 March 2015

Workshop in Honor of James Bogen
28 March 2015

Diagrams as Vehicles of Scientific Reasoning
10-12 April 2015

In the neighborhood:

17th Annual Pitt-CMU Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
20-21 March 2015

HPS Alumni Talk by Alan C. Love, Class of 2005
26 March 2015

Climate Science Workshop
Sustainable Attention: Communicating Risk to the Public
4 April 2015

April 2015

Speakers this month are Kevin Kelly and Stefano Gattei.

Please join us for:

Diagrams as Vehicles for Scientific Reasoning
10-12 April 2015

Call for Abstracts
Effective Theories, Mixed Scale Modeling, and Emergence


In the neighborhood:

Climate Science Workshop
Sustainable Attention: Communicating Risk to the Public
4 April 2015